Text on Collaborative Projects

16.4.1 (2009)

4 - 20 December 2009
16 Artists – 4 Spaces – 1 Venue

Space 1 – re-invents an existing space
Space 2 – explores the representation of narratives
Space 3 – reacts and extends the perimeter of the exhibition
Space 4 – focuses primarily on display and presentation.


16.4.1 spans 4 indoor and outdoor spaces within the PLANE / SITE Galleries in a situation-specific collective. The selected artists have been encouraged to continue working in their usual disciplines and as a result of group meetings along with an online blog, natural groupings of artist practices have emerged. These groupings are presented within each of the spaces in the gallery which include site specific installations that re-invent the gallery space. There are a wide variety of disciplines ranging from illustration, multimedia, painting to textiles.

Participating artists: Mark Beatty, Ella Burke, Claudia Boese, Ruth Doorley, Carol Freeman, Orla Gargan, Nicholas Grey, Elaine Hurley, Kenneth Lambert, Victoria Macarthur, Conor Mahon, Fionnuala Mahon, Elaine McCague, Elaine McHugh, Sharon Murphy and Nicky Teegan.

A special performance will be held on the opening night, devised by artists Meabh Redmond and Niamh Murphy.

Curated by Fionnuala Mahon and Sharon Murphy.




PALLASADES (2008)
Press Release:

Imelda Barnard, Laura Carey, Fiona Chambers, Rachael Gilbourne,
Michelle Hall, Tracy Hanna and Sharon Murphy

An artist-initiated project at
PALLAS CONTEMPORARY PROJECTS


Preview: Friday 22nd August, 6 - 9pm, reception followed by live music.

Exhibition continues: 23rd – 30th August 2008, open daily 12 - 6pm


Emerging art collective, Pallasades, present their first collaborative project; a site-specific installation that combines light with structure and shape, directing human responses to spatial presence. Using the gallery space as a temporary darkroom, low-tech photographic works signify this active engagement with the making-process.

Following Pallas Contemporary Projects' approach to onsite work, this exhibition developed through a series of group cohabitations within the gallery. Working at length together, in some cases overnight, the experience of the space was intensified, highlighting it as an entity in its own right. Sensory deprivation, amounting to feelings of dislocation and unease, created an awareness of the absent; the lack of daylight causing a disarming perception of Time, and encouraging the innate human desire for natural light. Using materials primarily found in, and sympathetic to, the gallery space, the work emerged out of this shared experience. It is an attempt to invert perceptions of the space - Pallasades say, 'Let there be Light!'

Pallas Contemporary Projects was set up to allow artists a space to experiment and take risks with their practice. Most of our exhibitions evolve in relation to the idiosyncratic specifics of our gallery space and artists benefit from an extended period of on-site work in which to test and try out ideas ahead of their public exhibition; as a result of this approach the artists have the possibility of producing works that would not have been generated within their own production context. Pallasades is a group of young emerging artists, writers and curators, which has developed out of the internship programme at Pallas Contemporary Projects. In this instance the invited participants were given free reign to develop an exhibition for the space. The Pallas Contemporary Projects curated programme continues in
September with Revolutionary Nostalgia, curated by Mary Cremin.



Preview: Friday 22nd August, 6 - 9pm
Dates: 23rd – 30th August 2008
Venue: Pallas Contemporary Projects - 111 Grangegorman Road Lower, Dublin 7
Days: Monday - Saturday
Time: open daily 12 - 6pm

Further information please contact: pallasades7@gmail.com /
www.pallasades.blogspot.com